Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 198, Hammond, Lake County, 9 February 1910 — Page 1

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VOL. IV., NO. 198.

HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAEY 9, 1910

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J. E. Fitzgerald is Elected President of Organization Which is Started for Protection Primarily

BY-LAWS

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Influence of Club Will BeJ

Directed Toward Improvement of the Roads.

CANDIDATES

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The Hammond Automobile club met and perfected its organization last evening in the directors' room of the First National bank. The officers of the new club are John E. Fitzgerald, president; J. G. Ibach, vice president; George B. Sheerer, secretary; E. 0. Winkler, treasurer; and a board of managers consisting of W. B. Conkey, J .T, Hutton, John La vine, A. M. Turner and C. H. Stewart. The consttuticm and by-laws of the club were adopted and the membership has been limited to 150. The purpose of the organization is social

. and protective. ' One of the first acts of the orgaaiza- : tion will be to idler a reward for the '. arrest and conviction of persons caught

PMiDLE FIREMEN IS BURNED

Crown Point. Ind!.. Feb. 8. While a

manhandle freight train was running

at a high rate of speed, yesterday. Earl "W. Seagraves, a fireman, was seriously burned when a draft forced

the firebox and set fire to His clothing.

The flames enveloped Seagraves. blis

tering his face and hands and setting

Are to his clothing. He staggered back.

ana -would have fallen from the cab had not the engineer caught him. The

engineer swung the firebox door shut

and-ihen with gloved hands smothered the burning clothes of Seagraves. The

fireman's Injuries were such that he

had to be taken from the locomotive at this -elty. He was taken to Logansport

on a passenger train.

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Political Booms Galore Will

Be Launched at Meeting

ing of Indiana State Republican Editorial Association Tomorrow.

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street for the purpose of puncturing

uto'4:W2e tires. v .a i.e-H " 2-,

" . . TO IMPROVE ROAD S. ' v The initiation tee will be S2 and hte

dues will be $1 per quarters. The club will at once take up the social side of the organization -and several outings will be planned. ' It is also expected that the influence of the organization will be directed toward the Improvement of the roads of the county. . It Is believed that an effort will be made to have a short street cut through- the southwest' oorner of Conkey and Calumet avenues parallel to the Brie railroad tracks so that the necessity for machines bound southward to cross the tracks will be avoided altogether. A similar difficulty will be "-avoided a little farther southeast of that point, Just east of Sharpshooters' Park, where the Ridge road crosses the Erie tracks. Here the county commissioners, by opening and paving ia short strip of road could avoid the necessity for automobiles, teams and pedestrians, southward-bound, crossing the tracks. There is also a point on the Monon at Munster, where a much traveled highway crosses the tracks in a deep cut, and it is believed that but little expense would be required to build a viaduct over the tracks and positively eliminate all danger of accidents. It was at this point that two Mlshawaka boys were killed July 24 of last year. AVOIDS POCR CROSSINGS. It is argued that the lives of the traveling public .could-be protected to a much greater extent by these inexpensive improvements, and the Hammond Automobile club will take steps to induce the city officials of Hammond ' and the county commissioners, as the case may be, to make them. If by the building of two short strips of street not to exceed a total length of 500 feet, the Hammond Automobile club can avoid the necessity of crossing the Krie tracks four times, it is believed that it will have accomplished considerable good. It is this line of activity, along with the social activity of the club, that has led to the organization of, the Hammond Automobile club.

Indianapolis, Feb. 9. The approach of the Indiana Republican Editorial association's meeting to be held ib Indianapolis tomorrow has caused an unusual stir in political circles of the state. This meeting is considered an auspicious occasion to launch oa.rAt.

dacies' for state offices. The favorite sons of a score of counties are prepared usually by this time to take the general public into their confidence and receive whatever encouragement -is in store.,;.;.- ( ' , - .- T.'nJess signs '

falls tnrAr,fiof - j .

jdiana republicans wlll announce their

canaiaacies for secretary' of state at the meeting of. the republican editors. The return of Senator Beveridge from Washington to attend the meeting will add importance to the occasion. , -Sehaaf possibility. Hugh Th. Miller of Columbus, who was the running mate of former Governor Hanly. is rerivino- i-i-

WHYTJERE DOT THE I'OfJEII CONFISCATED West Hammond Begins to Inquire Into Persistence of Cook Co. Officials.

Eight slot machines which were confiscated by Cook county deputy sheriffs in West Hammond last Monday now await disposition by the West Hammond authorities. The machines are now in the village hall, and. according to the law, should be destroyed. West Hammond people are beginning to inquire into the reason for the raid, especially since some of the places were overlooked, while others on Flummer avenue were overlooked both for the machines and the women that they harbored. .

Judge V. S. Reiter Says That Saloonkeeper Must

Not Interfere With Hammond Savings & Trust Company.

Mathias Eoney was today enjoined from further interference with the workingmen in their efforts to get possession of the Tapper block and convertjt into-- roam-suitable for banking paxnosaa. , v-.VT.-,.-.-.;J.:T-B.,, , uyr ,rlu,' A most voluminous complaint was filed in the Lake superior court this morning Betting forth the grievance that the complainant, the Hammond Savings & Trust company has -against Mr. Boney. , - . Incidentally Mr. Boney has hn cri

ior a,uoo aarnasres

for the rtclav. in.

convenience and trouble he has caused Th. l. - 1 , . . ..

mn(l. t. . . wo i.'"iauu aueges xnat in anticlpaM d ' thS 8tate tlck" tiOU of the upancy of the new quaret. Mr. Miller dou rr i . . - . .

et Mr. Miller does not say that he will be a candidate, but he does nor o- ;

he will not be in the race for secretary of state. A prominent'republican of the Tenth district, who was very much in evidence around the ' Indianapolis hotels yesterday, was telling his friends that his "bailiwick" is an ideal place from which to select the republican candidate for secretary of state. ;'An ideal place," he said, "from the fact that" the Tenth district can produce an ideal candidate, George Haywood of Lafayette. He is an able lawyeran able speaker and a good cam-

ters a contract was let for flitnr.a

Contractor Dickover was employed to make the necessary alterations. What Complaint Says. The complaint says that if Boney is not enjoined he will continue to interfere with the plaintiff and prevent the peaceable enjoyment of possession. The complaint alleges that Boney has threatened to shoot, 'wound and maim the employes who were employed to make the alterations in the buldling and that he carried two revolvers to enforce his possession of the building. "V

It is also claimed that the arrest of

n-onunuea on page five.) I DUG GREAT BUSINESS

That Hammond is coming to be some-

hing of an automobile distributing center is shown by the fart' that the Hammond garage has ordered fifty Buick's, five Stoddard-Daytons and five Hupmobiles and a number of other machines. And there is a little story of considerable interest behind the purchase of those fifty Buicks. Last year the Hammond Garage company purchased eleven Buicks, and on the representation that they would be delivered promptly a number of them were sold. When the date of the delivery came around the machines were not shipped. There was several weeks of delay, and finally many of the purchasers of these machines refused to accept them. The Hammond garage made a demand upon the company for the commission on the machines which had been sold and were not delivered according to the contract. Suit Is Won. . The company refused to pay the com-

missions and suit was started to recover the amount that was alleged to be due. The Hammond garage won its suit, and the company was-compelled to pay several thousand dollars' commissions on machines that were sold but never delivered. But to show that the local concern was willing to do the right thing, one of ,its officers turned around and purchased fifty machines for delivery this year. And the machines are being delivered with surprising alacrity. In fact, it is doubtful if there is an agency in Chicago that can deliver Buiqka more promptly than the Hammond garage. The Buick people know that they have got to be prompt with the local concern or suffer the conse

quences. The Hammond garage is doing a good business, for the reason that it can make just as good terms with the purchasers -as any one else,, and it agrees to keep the machines in good repair fora year in addition.

1ER SEES SOt KILLED

Arthur Spafford of Hammond, Driven by Strange Premonition, Witnesses a Shocking Accident to His Boy at Evanston.

Driven to the sceneof hi son's fatal accident, seemingly by a premonition, Arthur Spafford of 144 Doty street yesterday afternoon was an eye-wit-netss when his 19-year-old son, Arthur, fell from a signal tower on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad at Evanston, I.. The accident happened yesterday afternoon, the boy sustaining internal injuries and a fracture of the skull. He was taken to St. Francis hospital, where he died shortly after S o'clock without having regaining consciousness. William Dunkel of Barton, Wis., was also in the accident, and fell with young Spafford. It is thought that he has a chance to recover. Father an. Eye-Witness. Arthur SpafTord was employed as an electrician by the Chicago & Northwestern since last Christmas. He came for Contlnued on Page Sight.)

LED I BEGINS 11H CHURCH

S

ERVICES

Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, was generally observed among the Catholics and Episcopals today. Those who could do so attended the morning church services. At the Catholic, churches ashes were distributed by the priest, who takes a few ashes between his thumb and forefinger and making the sign of the cross on the forehead of each, who approaches saying to him in Latin that his body is taken from the dust and that shall return to dust. In both the Catholic and Episcopal churches there will be services this evening. . '

BIG PRICE

PI FOR . PROPERTY

Four thousand dollars was the price paid by George Yonke, brother of Rose Spinner, now Mrs. ,J, C. Vesseriet of

West Hammond, for the West Ham

mond saloon and property of Fred Sommers. Mr. Yonke is . from Kankakee and the deal was put through by his sister for him. Mrs. Vesseriet said today that it was ehr husband's intention to eliminate the saloon and establish a grocery instead in the place. In addition to this he intends to put up two additional cottages on the vacant proeprty, the whole of his purchase having a frontage of .. seventy-seven feet. Speaking of the opening of State Une street, Mrs. Vesseriet said: "If the street is opened it will cut off the back part of my lot. I would consider that a benefit, and my intentions are to erect a three-Btory building in that event. Mrs. Vesseriet's place is located at No. 6 West State street.

UAH ANDERSON PAYS FRIENDS A VISIT "4. ( Former Hammond Boy Now a Prosperous1 Merchants ... :. i; i ; ": in Calgary. ' !

FIELD SHOWS GOOD ' jUDGHEDT

Lessee of Towle's Opera House and Ten Other Theaters, Proves Success of His Ideas When Road Companies Hit Bumps.

The good judgment of Manager Jaa. Wingfield of Towle's Opera House in taking up the management of theaters rather than road companies has "been demonstrated. . ... ' ' - ; . . ... .... - . ; . -.-?- .-.-j Wingfield is i,id !tg ."ih teian pt 'the Central "sratesheaiej? company" of Chicago. This company . owned a number of leases on theaters and has the management of a number of road companies.Some time ago tne Central States Theater company changed its policy of securing leases on theaters and became imbued with the idea that the road companies were the thing. The company signified its desire to drop some of its theaters, and James Wingfield took up the management of them. His success- in this venture is said to have vindicated his Judgment. It is said that Wingfield now has leases on eleven theaters. Among these is the theater at Hammond and others at Waukegan, 'Racine, Michigan City, Brazil and six other places. During the present season, and especially the season before, a large number of road companies went to pieces, but the lessees of theaters have been able to hang on and they now look for a good business with the return of prosperity.

Gary ion

Attorneys Consider Their Actin Withdrawing: From Lake ,

Co. Bar Ass'n. Vindicated

"PIG" KEEPERS

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UP FRIDAY

The Indicted blind pig proprietors of Gary must appear in the Lake county ciucuit court on next Friday and either plead guilty or give notice of their intention to go to trial. It is expected that some of the defentent will, plead guilty and throw themselves on the mercy of the cort and others will fight their prosecution.. It is expected that the attorneys for the blind pig keepers will show their hand next Friday and a forecast of what the future developments will be is certain. It is possible that there will be several motions yto quash the Indictments providing a technicality can be fcrund. Friday's session of court will bring Hie blind pig crusade to its first crisis, and that there wil be feverish interest in

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Lake County Bar Association Decides Last Night . - to Take no 'Part" ,

Thirty or more members of the Lake County Bar association met last night in the court room in the federal huilding and adopted the new constitution and by-laws of the association. The many sections of the constitution and the appended suggestions regarding professional ethics precipated a warm debate and it was after 12 o'clock before the constitution was finally adopted. The entire purpose ot the Lake County Bar association has been changed.. Originally the association was organized for the purpose of ald-

the proceedings is shown by the fact j lnK the attorneys of North township

that forty-three ef Gary's cltisens face

the posisbllltyl'of 'Jail sentences. K

HUUUUI PORITZ ' IS DEAD

o secure a Lake, superior court. For several years the sale excuse for the

Lexistance of the bar ataoclitla wis

to further the

court t'

August Mortis, 20 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Mortis, 935 Sheffield avenue, died this morning at his home, his death being due to pneumonia. Morits was employed In the Simplex and had many friends, who regret to hear of his untimely death. The funeral has been arranged for Saturday afternoon. Services will be held at the house at 1:30 in the. afternoon, after which they will be taken to the North Side German Lutheran church. Interment will be at Concordia cemetery. ,

GREAT WILL BE TRIP

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DRAK NOBLES WILL TAKE

Reduction in Price. The small consumer of electricity in Hammond has noticed a considerable reduction in the January bills as the result of the reduction in the cost of electricity from 13 to 10 cents. This. reduction affects the great majority of small users of electricity, those who use less, than fifty kilowatt hours of electricity. The larger consumers'already had a substantial reduction below the 13-cent rate. The reduction affecting the great majority of the light 1 consumers of the NorthernIndiana Gas &-Electric company has created a decidedly favorable impression, especially in vl'r -r - h.

5S1, .fJ,?.,oaF made volun

tarily and even before the question of signing a contract with the city came up. '

Prices Remain Unchanged. Despite the hue and cry about the price of meats and the reduction thereof because of the boycott and the public opinion, no slump in prices in Hammond is perceivable. Said one leading meat dealer today: . "The price of beef semains unchanged and in some lines is even a trifle higher. It is true that pork has fallen off a cent or two, but that is not unusual. The boycott may have affected prices in the east, but nothing of it has been felt around Chicago.

Dan Anderson, who was formerly connected with the Lion store, Hammond, as the manager of the Drescrio-

tion department, was in the city yesterday, calling on his old friends.

Mr. Anderson was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hatch durine his stav

here. He Is now located at Caltarv. t?

C, and is on his way to Goshen, Ind.,

ana New Orleans, La.

It has tleen two years since Ander

son has been in Hammond, and he says

tnat the changes that have taken place In Hammond In that time are nothing

short of marvelous.

Mr. Anderson is associated with iia

brother in a prosperous business venture in B. C. at present.

Clabby Wins Again. Jimmy Clabby, the Hammond welterweight, outpointed Pady Lavin of Buffalo in a ten round no-decislon bout which was fought at Buffalo Jast night. Clabby had the better of a whirlwind So. Tommy Callahan knocked out Tommy Yeats In four rounds, Billy Moorhead of Milwaukee finished Patsy McDermott in the first round.

Attorney Out Again. Attorney Leon Berezniak, 136 Carroil street, was strong enough to venture out on the street today. He Is, however, not yet permitted to go to his office, this being a privilege reserved for next week. Mr. Berein'ak was struck by a stray bullet In. Chicago which was meant for a pickpocket.

Vendor- Cigars are pronounced exceptionally good by all smokers.

Plans have been completed whereby

the nobles of Orak temple, Hammond, will go 'to New Orleans, La.,' to the meeting of the imperial council to be

held there April 11, 12 and 13, The route selected by the officers of Orak temple is via the Chicago,-, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad company (Monon route) and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad company. The members of Orak temple and their friends will leave Hammond on their special train at noon on Friday, April 8, 1910, and arrive at Indianapolis on the afternoon of April 8th. " They will be entertained by the members of Murat temple until 8 p. m. of April 8th, at which time Orak temple's special coaches will be attached to Murat temple's special train and will form a part' of its special train for the entire trip. The special train will leave Indianapolis at 8 p. m.. April 8, arriving at Louisville, Ky., Friday night at 11:30 p. m., and in Nashville, Tenn.. at 6:30 a. m. Saturday morning, stopping at Nashville, Tenn., one and one-half hours for breakfast and sightseeing. The train will arrive at Birmingham, Ala., at 1:30 p. m., Saturday, April 9th, and will remain there two hours for luncheon and sightseeing. The members of Orak temple will be entertained there by Zamora temple.' The train will arrive at Montgomery, Ala., at 5:30 p. m. for dinner and sightseeing, and the party will be entertained while in that city, remaining there until midnight. Leaving Montgomery, Ala., at midnight, the special train will arrive at Mobile, Ala., at 6 a. m. Sunday morning in time for breakfast and sightseeing, and the party will be entertained by the nobles of Abba temple while tn Mobile. Leaving Mobile at 19 a. m. the special

train will arrive at Gulf ott at 12:07 P. ra. The party will leave Gift Port

at :30 p. m. and will arrive ataAs Christian at 1:50 p. m. Leaving Pas's Christian at 3 p. m. the trip will nd at New Orleans, La., at 5:10 p. m. Sunday afternoon. The railroad fare for the round trip is' $26.50 from Hammond, In. Orak temple has made arrangements for hotel accommodations for fifty people in New Orleans, reserving rooms in the Monteleone hotel. The officers were able to secure these rooms at the very reasonable rate of $2 per day per person by contracting for the rooms for a period of not less than three days. A large number of Shriners from Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, Indiana Harbor. Gary, Crown Point, Michigan City, Valparaiso and South Bend will compose the delegation from Orak tern-, pie, and they are now reserving their rooms at New Orleans by giving notice to the recorder of Orak temple and placing a deposit for the number of rooms desired.- " - ( The officers of Orak temple are', to be congratulated "Wpon the goed accommodations they have secured especially in view of the fact that on the same day the contract was signed, all hotel accommodations in New Orleans during the meeting of the imperial council were contracted for, and those who did not get in first wilt have to make arrangements in private homes and boarding houses. The Shriners of northern Indiana who desire to take this trip can make full arrangements for the same by Communicating with the recorder of Orak temple. Orak temple will hold their next ceremonial about, the middle of March, at which time there will be a large - class to pass over the hot sr.nds. "-

TO'AVOIO COX'RT Wun rS. , --. Now, however, the . purpose of the association is to. raise the standard of legal ethics in Lake county and to see that , this standard is, maintained. In the event of another court fight the lawyers in a particular locality who are desirous of increasing their court facii-' lties will have to effect a temporary organisation for the purpose of promoting their Interests. Never again will a court fight be taken up by the Bar association. This is taken by the Gary attorneys as a vindication of their action in withdrawing from the meeting; of the Bar association several years ago, when it refused to recognize Gary's claims for a separate court. Several sections of the' suggestions

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SENATORIAL BOOL) FOR J. FRAI1K .lEEKEil ... - t r x. ..;.,- . . Is Figured to Have - Great Abilities as a Faction Harmonizer.

IL'S A GOOD FGllOB

Man Groomed by 'Friends Has Not

Yet Had Time to Deny or - "Confirm Heport . . "

(Special to Thb Times.) -Crown Point. ma.. Feb. 9. A political boom .of no meait--proportions ' was launched here yesterday by the friends of County Attorney J., Frank Meeker, who are confident that it will grow to the proportions whereby it will be necessary to call Luke county's popular attorney Senator. Meeker next November. Of course. J. ; Frank has xjot been apprised of the fact as yet, and there may be a "hem" and a "bow"

from him, but his political friends who have been making a gumshoe campaign

as to Meeker's chances of filling the . sen

atorial shoes, say there Js nothing to it, and that the buckles are already on.

In a Faction Yfarmonlmer. The popularity of the county attorney is unqestioned from Lake Michigan to the Kankakee, and he has been in the political traces long enough in this senatorial district to make him a power. Tlfose on the inside say that Meeker's candidacy for the senatorial toga will strengthen the party's chances of winning next fall, and will to a great extent harmonize any factional strife in the party as to sectional preference, and it Is safe to fay that Meeker will poll a large vote, and there will be many; a rock-ribbed-dyed-ln-the-wool democrat who. will put on his gloves and work for Frank Meeker should the county attorney decide to throw hi gauntlet Into the political arena.